Referential Strategies of the Correlation between Representational Gestures and Representation of Social Actors in Al-Fatlawi's Interview. A CDA Study

Abstract

      The present study deals with the gestural behavior in regard with linguistic manipulation and ideology in discourse, and how they work together to construct socio-cognitive representation of social actors; As a multimodal critical discourse analysis, the study seeks to diagnose representations in the communicative interaction in which gestures and speech function in meaning making, and to reveal the kind of ideas, absences and assumptions underlying the linguistic patterns expressed in speech and their associate representative gestures. The study works on uncovering the correlation between representational gestures (iconic, metaphoric and deictic) and specific linguistic patterns (circulating the representation of social actors with a polarization of Us and Them) in Al-Fatlawi's political speech (an interview on the channel of Al-Rasheed).